Marriage and Family

Ezra Levant to headline parental rights fundraiser

Freedom fighter Ezra Levant will talk about religious freedom and parental rights at a parental rights defence fundraising dinner. Sun News personality Ezra Levant will headline the Parental Rights in Education Defense Fund fundraising dinner on May 24 at Canada Christian College in Toronto to raise money for the organization as it financially assists Dr. Eusthathios (Steve) Tourloukis in his [...]

Assault against the family

Michael Coren Journalist for Life Gay marriage was introduced into Britain, and it’s now been the law of the land for a year. A morbid anniversary of failure, a far from happy birthday. The Church of England has been placed in an incredibly difficult position, particularly because the Archbishop of Canterbury is an evangelical and has long been opposed to [...]

2014-03-24T11:06:57-04:00March 24, 2014|Marriage and Family, Michael Coren|

US law would protect states’ rights on marriage

A bill before the U.S. House of Representatives would protect a state’s right to define marriage. HR 3829, the State Marriage Defense Act, introduced on Jan. 9 by Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas) with the support of 28 co-sponsors, would require that federal agencies apply marital status only to couples who are given marital status by their state of legal residence. “The 10th [...]

2014-02-24T12:36:16-05:00February 24, 2014|Marriage and Family|

Teacher resources push gay agenda

A teacher resource uncovered by the Toronto Sun that suggests teachers change the names of Mother’s and Father’s Day is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of political correctness when it comes to homosexualist propaganda being foisted upon Ontario schools. The Social Justice Begins With Me program, a “literature-based resource kit for early years to Grade 8” is intended to [...]

2013-11-02T05:55:10-04:00November 1, 2013|Announcements, Features, Marriage and Family|

Cost of raising a family much lower than often reported

A study released by the Fraser Institute says that contrary to reports that have the cost of raising a child exceeding $200,000 or $10,000 a year, the actual cost of a child more likely between $3,000 and $4,500, or between $55,000 and $80,000 from birth to the age of 18. In “The Cost of Raising Children,” Chris Sarlo, a professor of economics [...]

2013-10-11T11:08:15-04:00October 11, 2013|Announcements, Features, Marriage and Family|

Time magazine celebrates childlessness

The cover story for the August 12 issue of Time magazine promotes a child-free life. The article, by Lauren Sandler, which decries the cultural expectation of having children, cites the positive experiences of individuals and couples without children, and tries to explain why they choose a childless lifestyle.   Sander writes that American culture “often equates womanhood with motherhood” and boasts a “baby-product [...]

2013-09-27T12:29:05-04:00September 27, 2013|Marriage and Family|

US Supreme Court gives new life to gay ‘marriage’

Justice Antonin Scalia dissented from the decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act, saying that the courts should not be deciding social policy. On June 26, the Supreme Court of the United States issued two rulings related to  same-sex “marriage” in what critics are suggesting could be the Roe v. Wade of marriage. In a 5-4 decision (United [...]

2013-08-23T10:49:20-04:00August 23, 2013|Marriage and Family, Politics, Society & Culture|

U.S. Supreme Court throws out pro-traditional marriage law

National Affairs Rory Leishman While judges in Canada and the United States usually hand down reasonable decisions in conformity with the separation of legislative and judicial powers, occasionally some rogue judicial activists take the law into their own hands with potentially disastrous consequences. A case in point is the judgment on June 26 by the United States Supreme Court in United [...]

2013-08-16T08:44:45-04:00August 16, 2013|Columnist, Marriage and Family, Rory Leishman|

What is marriage?

If any single battle has come to dominate the ongoing culture war between the right and the left, it would probably be gay “marriage.” The more you linger over the argument, however, the less it seems like either side is talking about the same thing. One side talks about marriage like it’s a purely social arrangement, changing with the times and sanctified [...]

When coffee breath hinders and saltines don’t help: more than morning sickness

Optimizing assistance to mothers with hyperemesis gravidarum The Princess of Cambridge has hyperemesis gravidarum, a condition that leads one in six who get it to abort their children. When Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, was hospitalized for hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), many didn’t realize the condition is potentially life-threatening to both mother and baby. One comment online was typical of the [...]

2013-03-08T09:00:06-05:00February 28, 2013|Announcements, Features, Marriage and Family|

Tolerance and same-sex ‘marriage’ threaten freedom

National Affairs Rory Leishman In an ominous sign of the times, London’s Daily Telegraph published a joint letter to the editor on Jan. 12 in which more than 1,000 priests and eight bishops of the Catholic Church decry the onset of a new age of religious persecution in Britain. Of prime concern to the letter-writers is the determination of the [...]

2013-02-15T19:39:49-05:00February 24, 2013|Columnist, Marriage and Family, Rory Leishman|

Daycare negatively affects kids’ socialization

Early childcare can have a negative impact on a child’s development. Developmental psychologist Dr. Gordon Neufeld told the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada (IMFC) that early interaction between young children, often heralded as a reason to send kids to daycare, does not lead to better socialization, which is defined as cooperating with others while retaining a sense of individuality. “Premature socialization [...]

2013-02-03T10:04:18-05:00January 30, 2013|Marriage and Family|

Bathroom bill is redundant

According to the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, a private member’s bill creating special protections for “gender identity” and “gender expression” is unnecessary and may even be dangerous. In a Dec. 7 letter to Canadian MPs, Don Hutchinson, vice president and general legal counsel of the EFC, states that the “courts and human rights tribunals have already developed jurisprudence under existing human rights [...]

2013-02-04T08:59:13-05:00January 30, 2013|Marriage and Family, Society & Culture|

A challenge for abundant life

In a recent video battle against gay activist/sex-advice columnist Dan Savage, Family Research Council president Tony Perkins quoted an old headline: “Dan Savage Explains Why He Started ‘It Gets Better’ Project: ‘When a gay teenager commits suicide, it’s because he can’t picture a life for himself that’s filled with joy,’ columnist tells MTV News.” Incredibly, Perkins used the image of that headline as [...]

2013-02-28T11:48:17-05:00January 23, 2013|Marriage and Family, Society & Culture|

Consequences of same-sex marriage

National Affairs Rory Leishman The proponents of traditional marriage in the United States suffered a major setback as voters backed the legalization of same-sex “marriage” in all four states that held referenda on the subject in the November elections. This brings to 10 the total number of states that have legalized same-sex “marriage” either by referendum, legislation or judicial fiat. [...]

2012-12-18T08:34:37-05:00December 18, 2012|Announcements, Features, Marriage and Family, Rory Leishman|
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